Chapter One Hundred and Twelfth: Under the ceremony, people must ask for something
Thanks to Brother Longtou for the reward, there are still four update tickets, which are about to be put on the shelves. We need to save the manuscript. Now there are three updates every day. Do we have to ask for four updates? Tomorrow may be the last day of free updates, so there will be four updates.
"Haha, are you scared? There are more than 100,000 rare ancient books here. The ones you saw just now are only a small part of those Japanese materials." Jiang Lin said proudly.
"More than 100,000 books? That's right. Just the Nanjing Massacre allowed those little Japan to snatch more than 400,000 ancient books. You are only a very small part of them." Han Peacock sighed.
"Yes, during World War II, too many things were robbed by the Japanese. Most of these things are missing, and the rest are either in Japanese museums or American museums." Jiang Lin also said with emotion.
Han Peacock was also silent. How many things were destroyed that year?
During the Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai, the Commercial Press and the library were burned down by fire, but this time the number of books burned reached millions, a large part of which were ancient books.
In 1944, 11,022 precious ancient books in the Capital Museum were looted by the Japanese army, and 1,372 precious cultural relics were taken from the Peking History Museum located at the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City.
After the fall of Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist Government, the brutal Japanese troops carried out a crazy massacre and also looted and destroyed cultural relics stored in various public and private institutions in the city.
People today only care about the 300,000 people who were massacred, but not many people know how many cultural relics were robbed throughout Nanjing City.
Only rough statistics show that Nanjing City lost a total of 26,584 pieces of antiquities, including Shang Dynasty bronzes, jades and many other world-recognized precious cultural relics collected by the Yin Ruins excavation team, 7,720 paintings and calligraphy, and 459,579 books.
The Nanjing and Nanjing governments also lost 648,368 pieces of cultural and miscellaneous items, and the private sector lost 3,851 pieces of tablets and inscriptions.
There are so many things, many of which are now officially said to be missing by Japanese officials and have never been seen alive. It is still unknown whether they are really missing or hidden by the Japanese.
"Yes, so we have to continue tracking other hidden treasures. The batch we have discovered now is only a very small part of them.
We won’t talk about this. You see, this is the contract we prepared. We have once again implemented a strict guarantee system in accordance with the rules of the auction house. As long as the cultural relics are placed in our museum, we will record a large number of characteristics.
If any accidents occur in the future, we will pay five times the cash compensation." Jiang Lin handed Han Kongque the contract and explained the terms of the contract to him.
Other staff members continued to take photos of the Nine Dragon Sword, and there was a special appraisal team that clearly described the various features of the Nine Dragon Sword and filled them all out in the contract.
After the appraisal of the Nine-Dragon Sword was completed, Jiang Lin said: "Our appraiser estimated that even if your Nine-Dragon Sword is not the one owned by Emperor Qianlong, its value will not be less than 120 million. We will set the price according to this price. If
If something happens to the sword in our hands, we will compensate you 600 million yuan, is that okay?"
"No problem." How could Han Peacock not agree?
No matter how famous this Kowloon sword is, no matter how valuable it is, it is unlikely to be sold for the sky-high price of 600 million yuan. After all, there are not many people who know the goods now. Of course, if someone can know the goods, even if it costs 600 million yuan to buy it, it will definitely be worth it.
I won't feel wronged.
After all the contracts were signed, Han Kongque handed the Nine-Dragon Sword to Jiang Lin. Jiang Lin also planned to use the Nine-Dragon Sword to promote a series of promotions, so naturally he happily accepted it.
After placing the Nine Dragon Sword, Jiang Lin said: "Let's go down and have a drink."
With that said, Jiang Lin pulled Han Kongque and walked out. When Han Kongque was passing a pile of documents, he unexpectedly found something, so his body froze.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Lin asked doubtfully.
Han Peacock smiled and said, "I seem to have seen something interesting."
"What?" Jiang Lin followed Han Kongque's gaze and looked at a pile of severely damaged documents.
These materials are all fragmentary pages, and most of them are useless Japanese documents. They have compiled too many such documents during this time.
It turns out that these documents are top secret, but World War II has been over for decades, and many of the things recorded in these documents have been declassified, so these documents actually have little value.
Han Peacock leaned over and picked up a piece of paper. It was a circular piece of paper with some inexplicable patterns drawn on it. Judging from the damage marks, it was the remaining remains after burning.
Because the burning is very irregular, the patterns on it are completely unrecognizable. However, others cannot identify it, but it is not difficult for Han Peacock. His brain is like a computer. He can clearly understand anything he has seen.
Carve it out in your brain.
"Do you recognize the pattern on it?" Jiang Lin asked in surprise.
Han Peacock smiled and said, "I've seen something like this before, it's just a coincidence!"
"Do you know this thing? The reason why we threw it here is because we studied it in detail. Although this piece of paper is not big, the patterns on it are obviously from several different pictures.
Now these incomplete patterns cannot be put together at all, so they are thrown here." After seeing Han Peacock's movements, a staff member who organized this part of the information said.
"Indeed, this piece of incomplete paper was seriously damaged, but I still saw its origin. If I read it correctly, it should be part of a book called the Puppet Manchukuo Station Seal Collection. Of course, that book must have turned out to be
It's not called this name, it was a name given later. If you can find this book, you can cut out this part of the pattern from one of the pages." Han Kongque said with a smile.
"What are you talking about? A collection of seals from the Puppet Manchuria Station? Are you saying that this thing has something to do with the seals of the Puppet Manchuria?" Jiang Lin said in shock.
"Don't you mention that the search for these information has something to do with the Awa Maru transport ship? There is a high possibility that the Puppet Manchukuo station seal collection appeared on the Awa Maru. Maybe this part of your treasures was actually transported by the Awa Maru.
Part of it." Han Kongque said.
"Haha, this is great. If it is really related to the Awa Maru, then we can use some clues to identify a treasure hiding place. Brother Han, you are really my lucky star. You are really helpful this time.
It's a big help to us." Jiang Lin almost jumped up with joy.
Han Kongque smiled faintly and said, "You'd better confirm the origin of this fragment of page first. I think you should be able to easily obtain the Puppet Manchukuo Station Seal Collection, right?"
"This is no problem." Jiang Lin quickly ordered someone to do a comparison.
Entering the elevator again, the elevator moved up and down, which was no worse than a bank's underground vault. Fortunately, Han Peacock was in good health, so he didn't feel dizzy at all while wandering back and forth.
When the elevator door opened again, they had reached the top floor of Longtan Hotel. As soon as the elevator door opened, they saw many people waiting outside.
"Mr. Han, please come this way." As soon as Han Peacock came out, he was stopped by a greeter.
"Do you know me?" Han Peacock asked doubtfully as he looked at this beautiful girl with tall figure and creamy skin.
"We have internal information about participating in the charity dinner. You are in my charge, so I know you." The greeter bowed and stepped back, guiding him to the other side.
"What's going on? The treatment at this charity dinner is too high, isn't it? Do you think each guest will be given a beauty?" Han Kongque said to Jiang Lin with a smile.
Jiang Lin was also happy: "Maybe you really get this kind of treatment. You are considered a successful person now. Don't you know that you must ask for something from others?"
"You mean?" Han Kongque really didn't know who wanted anything from him.
Jiang Lindao: "You will know when you go there. We will separate here. My seat must be different from yours. When the banquet starts later, I will go over and have a few drinks with you."
"Let me be clear, why are you leaving in such a hurry?" Han Peacock really didn't dare to follow a beautiful woman.
"Look at the people here, who are they? Successful people, except for this kind of people, all come here for their own needs, and the most common among them are officials from various places.
You know, the people who came here today include almost all the elites of the Magic City. Do you know what this means?
It means more opportunities, so for successful people like you, many people are looking for opportunities to get to know you, and this charity dinner actually provides a place to build relationships with each other," Jiang Lin explained.
"Building relationships?" Han Kongque really didn't know that this kind of banquet had such a function.
"Yes, build connections. Look over there, staff from the Magic City Government and staff from several other big cities are all coming after me. Why do you think they are looking for me?" In the distance, there is a group of people.
People are coming this way, and Jiang Lin is referring to them.
"Is it because of your museum?" Han Peacock responded quickly.
Jiang Lin whispered: "The Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Magic City invited me to have dinner today. What do you think they need me for? It is said that there are many celebrities, university professors and the like who are here today. Of course, they are all lovers of cultural relics and antiques.
Today the Chief Executive of Hong Kong will also attend this charity dinner. It is said that the Hong Kong government plans to announce at this banquet that they are planning to build a large historical and cultural museum...
You know, although there are museums in Hong Kong, they are basically small-scale ones, and the so-called cultural relics on display are mostly based on Hong Kong's local culture. The historical scope is too small and the coverage is too narrow.
This is too inconsistent with Hong Kong's status as an international financial center and metropolis. Therefore, the chief executive wants to change this situation and leave Hong Kong a cultural place that the people can be proud of during his term of office.
Of course, these people are definitely here for us. Although there are many rich people in Hong Kong, and there are countless antiques and cultural relics bought and sold in auction houses every day, as long as we gather some big collectors and collect a few casually, we can
Enough to build a large museum.
But they lack treasures to suppress luck, and they don’t have two or three top-level national treasures, but they definitely can’t support a famous museum.”